Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1054     Reading:  121

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1101     BP:  137/73     Pulse:  59

Breakfast:  1045  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 1 4 oz slice sugar cured ham steak 1" slice of the orange-cranberry-walnut ring she bought yesterday with 1 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 1/4 tsp cinnamon on bread 6 oz orange juice diluted w/8 oz water
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
Niferex-150 [150 mg elemental iron]	1 hour before breakfast	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with Niferex-150	helps the body metabolize iron
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin
Protonix/40 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast med
glipizide ER/10 mg	1 pill with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
aspirin/81 mg	1 tab with breakfast	standard breakfast med - given for anti-coagulant properties
lisinopril/1.25 mg	1/4 of 5 mg tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
folic acid/400 mcg	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties; among other reasons; appears to be of benefit to type 2 diabetics, as well, in its role as a smooth muscled organ protectant, particularly the pancreas, which produces insulin

    Nothing out of the ordinary except that she awoke on her own; I let her since it has been a rain day and she is not a rain person.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1616     Reading:  135

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1630     BP:  111/58     Pulse:  63

Lunch:  1300-1700  & Meds What she ate:  2 pieces of whole grain bread smeared with butter about half a pear from our tree 1/6th a slice of leftover tomato pie
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
18 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	1 18 mg tab with meal	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron

    Lunch was drawn out between naps for Mom, today, which is why I took stats so late, and made sure she had plenty of warm comfort food ready for her.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  None     Reading:  taken

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2016     BP:  125/63     Pulse:  71

Dinner:  2030  & Meds What she ate:  Approx 8 oz Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie Soup 1 12 oz cup instant chocolate mint cocoa
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 18 mg tabs with meal	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron
glipizide ER/10 mg	1 pill with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties
calcium-vitamin D/500-200 mg	with meal	believed to be an osteoporosis preventative

    I didn't take her blood glucose because she's been eating off and on all day and it didn't seem necessary, since I knew I wouldn't be giving her insulin but would be giving her glipizide. She wasn't terribly hungry at what turned out to be dinner time, but when she started prowling through the kitchen, once again, I suggested soup and she decided that was a good idea.